Written by: Ariel Barber 

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TAGLINE​:

If I were you, I wouldn’t listen to me.  

 

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LOGLINE​:

​When an overly apologetic Maeve unwittingly harnesses an ancient deity power of chaos and war, she gains a power where through simple suggestion she starts a chain reaction of destruction and violence that she appears powerless to stop.

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Synopsis

 

Maeve​ doesn’t like to take up space, to inconvenience others with her presence. Like many young women she works very hard to be likeable and inoffensive. However, her supervisor Donna doesn’t need a reason to hate her, the fact that Maeve is fifteen years younger and can joke with the guys at the office is enough. But as Donna’s abuse reaches new heights even Maeve is at a loss for what to do. Unluckily her mild manners make Maeve the perfect target for a mythic feminine power - the power behind war, physical and psychological, a destructive force hell bent on having things her way: The Morrigan.  

 

The Morrigan is initially a parasitic presence in Maeve’s life, the first symptom; Maeve’s left eye turns green overnight. While Maeve is frightened she continues on with her life, but something is different, people start listening to her suggestions and advice, no matter how wild it may be. Not until Mark, Maeve’s sweet and dependable co worker physically attacks her boss Donna does Maeve fully understand that she is responsible. Not only that, but her suggestions have only brought about destructive results. However, it is too late. With each suggestion The Morrigan gets stronger, and because Maeve has proven such a worthy host to her powers, she decides to keep Maeve firmly under her influence.  

 

When Maeve realizes what her advice has done to her best friend, her co-worker and ultimately strangers as well, heedless of the Morrigan’s warnings, she sets out to correct her mistakes. But only chaos can be born from chaos and with each move Maeve makes she only succeeds in hurting her loved ones more, and driving them further away.  

 

Only when she is utterly alone, despairing, does Maeve turn to the Morrigan’s powers for their ultimate purpose: destruction. When she turns a group of sleazy men on each other in a bar parking lot, Maeve gives in to the dark forces that have been slowly taking over her world. This act gives the Morrigan her ultimate power, and frees her from the necessity of using Maeve to fulfill her violence.  

 

Ultimately Maeve must face what she has done, and take ownership of her actions, but also recognize that she is not responsible for everything other people say and do. She is allowed to take up space, to hold opinions that others don’t agree with, and there is not pre-existing mold that she must force herself to fit. The only way to bring down The Morrigan is for Maeve to own her own strengths, to be as self-assured in her convictions as this goddess is in hers.  

 

When The Morrigan goes on a rampage through Maeve’s hometown, she cannot be stopped by force. Maeve must face her, woman to woman-deity, and break her with force of will, not strength. While Maeve is complicit in the upheaval and destruction of the lives of her loved ones, ultimately she must come to grips with the knowledge that it is not all her fault. She does not hold the key to other people’s happiness.